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| 'Dinner with Saddam': laughs and something to chew on | | | By Nigel Stephenson LONDON (Reuters) - In the run-up to the 2003 U.S.-led invasion of Iraq, says British author and playwright Anthony Horowitz, Saddam Hussein would drop in on unsuspecting Baghdadi families and invite himself to dinner. In Horowitz's new comedy "Dinner with Saddam", it is the fictional Alawi family's turn to feed the dictator. Ahmed Alawi, played by Sanjeev Bhaskar, is a hapless construction supervisor on a mosque extension who, apparently alone in the city, refuses to believe a storm of cruise missiles is on its way. |
| Malaysia arrests 6 people, says they may have aided Bangkok bomber | |  By Trinna Leong and Panarat Thepgumpanat KUALA LUMPUR/BANGKOK (Reuters) - Malaysia has arrested six people suspected of being part of a human trafficking network and who may have helped a bomber who killed 20 people at a Bangkok shrine last month escape from Thailand, police said on Wednesday. The suspects joined two people already in Malaysian detention who may have helped the bomber, who Thai police said was a foreigner of unknown identity, flee across southern Thailand's border with Malaysia, police in both countries said. Four of the six people arrested last week were believed to be minority Uighur Muslims, who come from China's far western Xinjiang region, said Ayob Khan Mydin Pitchay, director of the Malaysian police counter-terrorism unit.
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| New Greek cabinet sworn in with few new faces | |  Greece's new cabinet was sworn in on Wednesday, bringing in few new faces as re-elected Prime Minister Alexis Tspiras sought continuity in pushing through economic reforms under the watchful eye of international lenders. Tsipras appointed two bailout negotiators to head his economic team, reappointing Euclid Tsakalotos as finance minister and making George Chouliarakis deputy finance minister. Tsakalotos, a low-key Oxford University-trained Marxist economist, was at the finance helm when Greece and its creditors produced an 86 billion-euro loan accord on August.
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| As Britain welcomes 20,000 Syrians, Eritreans say they also deserve to stay | | | By Joseph D'Urso BRADFORD, England (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Two young Eritreans, recent arrivals in northern England after paying smugglers thousands of dollars to take them across the Sahara desert, Mediterranean Sea and English channel, are hoping the British government will let them stay. While Britain has vowed to open its doors to 20,000 Syrians who are fleeing their home country in unprecedented numbers, Eritreans seeking to escape from violence, persecution, and poverty fear their claims for asylum could suffer. In Britain the largest number of asylum applications in the year to June 2015 were from Eritrea - but two thirds of claims, 66 percent, were refused in the second quarter of 2015, a jump from a 14 percent refusal rate in the previous year. |
| Orban mobilises Hungary's troops, prisoners, jobless to fence out migrants | | | By Balazs Koranyi SAROK, Hungary (Reuters) - Built in a matter of weeks by soldiers, prison labourers and cadres of the unemployed, a vast new wall along Balkan frontiers is a monument to the ruthless efficiency with which Prime Minister Viktor Orban has mobilised Hungary against migrants. Orban describes the arrival of hundreds of thousands of refugees and other migrants in Europe this year from Asia, Africa and the Middle East as an attack on the continent's Christian welfare model. ... |
| Tainted trio will tarnish new Pakistan league's image - Ramiz | |  Involving the tainted trio of Salman Butt, Mohammad Asif and Mohammad Amir will be "extremely dangerous" for the reputation of the inaugural Pakistan Super League (PSL), former captain Ramiz Raja has said. Former captain Butt and pacemen Asif and Amir were cleared by the International Cricket council (ICC) to return to competitive cricket from Sept. 2 after serving bans for a fixing scandal in 2010.
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